Short people

There aren't enough short cyclists in the world. Even worse, those who are don't seem to ride fixed!

I've been scouring ebay and the net in general for the right frame and am comming up short. please excuse the pun.

Any ideas?

www.njsframes.blogspot.com
www.njs-keirin.blogspot.com

Loadsa tiny frames... Jeeeeez!!!!

Blocks of wood on the pedals.

Buy a medieval rack, use three times a week for a two weeks then five times a week for a month or until desired height.

Go to a Chinese leg extension factory.

Cut off your legs and get them replaced with longer prosthetic ones.

Eat your greens.

Buy a old steel road bike in your size and get track ends fitted fit a low rake fork.

buy a girls bike so your nads don't get crushed ;)

Gtfu!

junior frames?

Had exactly the same problem.
Gave up.
Dug deep and bought a Bob jackson vigorelli (1/2" size increments)

I hear that!!

I could always invent a time machine go back to medeval times, and ASK to be put on the rack!! A little drastic but I could licence the use of the time machine via ebay and have a custom frame!!

Oh, thanks for the links.

Gtfu!

that's a new one on me

Oh, thanks for the links.

I want to be shorter when I'm browsing those sites... You're a very lucky (in terms of finding NJS frames in your size), short man...

Try Isla bikes...
www.islabikes.co.uk

Midget

nice to see that the lanky ones have the same problems

How tall are you mgalex? I'm 5ft fuck all, never have problems

ask sano

how short are we talking here?

nice to see that the lanky ones have the sam problems

What's this got to do with Sam?

How tall are you mgalex? I'm 5ft fuck all, never have problems

Apart from reaching for doorbells... ;p

Apart from reaching for doorbells... ;p

And punching specs wearing knob'ends in the nose! ;-)

And punching specs wearing knob'ends in the nose! ;-)

Ha! :D

i'm 5" 5' but short inside (3rd) leg. I'm not a midget! unless you're 6"6' of course

min's a 52cm frame but all ebay stuff that I like's 56+

Shortarse to shortarse I can sympathise. My fixed pista is only a 49! Took me a while to find something with enough ball clearance (technical term). Aside from annoying pedal overlap it feels the same size as my geared bike which is a 52, but I prefer something a little smaller for town riding anyway. Things do come up on the bay etc but it's worth either trying them (if possible) or overlaying a pic of your current ride in photoshop so you can compare geometry/clearance etc.

Yours, Napoleon Complex

There aren't enough short cyclists in the world.

Emma pooley? Shes pretty small, but still wins medals.

I think its pretty easy to find a frame in smaller sizes if your prepared to pay 'normal' prices.

As there are always junior bikes below the smallest adults sizes.

I think freakishly tall people have a harder problem, as you have the finite size of the 700c wheel. So mass produced frames kind of cut off where bikes start to look ugly.

kind of cute too.
A mate's 5" 2' and got the club record of 261 miles for a 12hr.
Us shorties can fly assuming there are frames to fit us.